A lightweight title fight between current Sengoku champion Satoru Kitaoka (25-8-9) and Mizuto Hirota (11-3-1) has been granted main event status at World Victory Road’s Aug. 2 event “Sungoku Ninth Battle.”

The bout order for the evening’s 13-fight card was released earlier today.

Also featuring the conclusion of Sengoku’s 2009 featherweight grand prix, “Sengoku Ninth Battle” takes place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, and the main card airs on HDNet.

Kitaoka became Sengoku’s first-ever lightweight title holder with an impressive win over Takanori Gomi in January. Kitaoka has since defeated Yukio Sakaguchi in the Pancrase organization, and he will bring a six-fight win streak into the contest.

Hirota, a nine-time Shooto veteran, is 1-1-1 in his past three contests. Ni his most recent bout, Hirota earned an impressive 93-second win over veteran Mitsuhiro Ishida in May.

In addition to the final two rounds of the featherweight grand prix, “Sengoku Ninth Battle” also fetures notables Kazuo Misaki vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura, as well as Kazuyuki Fujita, Akihiro Gono and Yoshihiro Nakao.

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